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I voted for long press, as it makes things quicker. All you have to do is long press on the word and swipe up and most of the time, the definition is there. If that doesn't work for some reason, then I may paste the text into a search box.

i normally will copy and paste into chrome. though i can see the benefit of able to long press, highlight and translate/define without the need to copy. However, I don't want to bug down the phone or have random behavior since long press to highlight for copy and paste has been a pretty standard behavior. I don't do a lot of seraches so it is possible that even if the feature is there, I may not want to set it as default setting.

Neither on of these answers fit my use. When I am inputting text on a mobile I use speech for search. When I am translating Japanese, Korean or Chinese, I paste directly into a translate box. Long press directly to translation is fine but it's the only time I am search from text. When it's English I want to rephrase the search and not just search from text

This poll doesn't seem to be so much about searching within text (e.g., using the browser's "find in page" function), but doing a web-search of something that's already written on the page. In those cases, if it's a single word I generally just use long press. If it's multiple words, I would just retype it into the search bar. Only as a last resort would I ever use copy/paste for multiple words, because I absolutely hate moving the bounding handles.